Only 10% of those with the disorder enjoy coprolalia – so why the common misconception that everyone with Tourette’s swears?A group of people seeking to change the way their disability is viewed and reported is those who enjoy Tourette syndrome. An aspect of the coverage of what is an inherited neurological disorder is the organization of the condition with swearing.
An online review,published last December, of a comedy demonstrate by the duo Cassetteboy described their mashup of The Apprentice as showing Alan Sugar barking ‘bloody!’ like a Tourette’s sufferer”. Matthew Pountney, and co-founder of the website Touretteshero,which aims to celebrate and share the creativity and humour of the disorder in an accessible way, complained in an email that the line “like a Tourette’s sufferer” should enjoy no place in the Guardian.
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Source: theguardian.com